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RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled?

Comment comment by scottb on 27 December 2007

There's quite a wide range of quality in community tap water. I recall College Station as being relatively nasty tasting.

Some cities, like New York, have surprisingly good quality water coming right out of the tap. Something like 90% of the city's drinking water comes from reservoirs fed from the Catskill/Delaware watersheds, and is mostly on protected land owned by the city. As a result, they need to do very little processing to get very high quality water throughout the city.

Here in DC, I use a filter on the tap. The southern end of the city, and its 'burbs, where I live, is mostly re-claimed swampland. The system is pretty old, and needs improvements, and we had some lead-contamination scares in the past few years, so it seems like it's prudent, even if I didn't think the filtered stuff tasted better.

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RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by Brandon :: NR9

Even more than the taste, my most prevalent memory of the College Station water is it wouldn't rinse the flipping soap off. I swear my showers (and hand washings) in Houston take half the time...

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